M11 north weald
Was required by the BHPA to have a sign off on my kiwi paragliding license so chose North Weald to do a winch course 20 years ago. The briefing by “rusty” included not to land on the motorway as they had been shut down for 6 months after a student had landed on the central reservation during rush hour which closed the motorway for a short while.
1994 was in Illinois with my boy doing a PPL at a field owned by a TWA skipper..one of the British students described how he had ran out of fuel and put down on a road, the FAA and plod were involved and after he got some gas it was decided he had to do a couple of high speed taxing runs before he took off to satisfy the authorities which he did and and continued his training to get his CPL.